Tuesday, January 19, 2016

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When Netscape released its Web browser's source code to the public in 1998, it seemed like a Hail Mary move for a company embattled by Microsoft.Now barely a week goes by without a commercial tech company announcing the launch of a new platform,...
 
 
 
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Huffington Post
- Jan 19, 2016
- 10 hours ago
A barrel lies in a pool of oil at a damaged petroleum plant on Jan. 15, 2005, in Indonesia, after a 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Oil is incredibly cheap these days, but that doesn't spell doom for renewables.
Quartz
- Jan 18, 2016
- Jan 18, 2016
By most accounts, this is likely to be an incredible year for investment in renewables just about everywhere. In 2014, China overtook the first wave of green-power stalwarts—like many countries in Europe—to become the biggest investor in renewable ...
DesMoinesRegister.com
- Jan 19, 2016
- 5 hours ago
Four Republican presidential candidates addressed the 10th Annual Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit on Tuesday in Altoona and each drew applause from a crowd strongly supportive of corn-based ethanol and other renewable fuels. The candidates included ...
KCEN-TV
- Jan 19, 2016
- 10 hours ago
"We are very pleased with the recent award of a large scale renewable energy contract with Apex Clean Energy, as it will allow Fort Hood to utilize sun and wind resources to generate nearly half of our electricity needs over the course of a year, at a ...
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Nature.com
- Jan 19, 2016
- 14 hours ago
But ecologists have not had an easy journey into the world of big science. During its five-year construction phase, NEON has encountered a series of high-profile problems that have raised concerns about the programme, which is funded entirely by the US ...
Nasdaq
- Jan 19, 2016
- 17 hours ago
OXNARD, Calif., Jan. 19, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:CDTI) ("CDTi" or "the Company") has begun supplying its new synergized-platinum group metal (SPGM™) diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) to Panasonic Ecology ...
Castanet.net
- Jan 19, 2016
- 11 hours ago
Grassland farming is not only the basis of organic farming, but the basis of all farming, and hence the basis of civilization itself. The reason for this bold proclamation is, first of all, based on the fact that there is far more land across North ...
Nature.com
- Jan 13, 2016
- Jan 13, 2016
An abiding goal of ecology is to understand how the biological diversity of natural communities is linked to the rate at which those communities produce biomass, if it is linked at all. Elucidating this connection and the processes behind it is useful ...
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USA TODAY
- Jan 19, 2016
- 13 hours ago
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder gave a State of the State address Tuesday night, following remarks he made a day earlier on how he's made mistakes in handling the Flint, Mich., water crisis. "I'm sorry and I will fix it," Snyder said near the opening of his ...
WKMG Orlando
- Jan 18, 2016
- Jan 18, 2016
FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. - Vandals drained 400,000 gallons of water from the Flagler County water supply, prompting officials to issue a boil water alert. Detectives said the vandals opened about 20 valves at the Plantation Bay water system sometime Sunday ...
NEWS10 ABC
- Jan 18, 2016
- Jan 18, 2016
WATERFORD, N.Y. (NEWS10) – Several surrounding municipalities are feeling the effects of a major water main break in Troy. Waterford Town Supervisor Jack Lawler and Halfmoon Town Supervisor Kevin Tollisen declared States of Emergency in their ...
USA TODAY
- Jan 19, 2016
- 6 hours ago
Because an entire community has been drinking poisoned water, and it took years for anyone to do something about it. Explain: Flint's drinking water became contaminated with lead in 2014 after the city switched its water supply to cut costs and then ...

 
 

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